sustainability

Panasonic is moving ahead with smart city installations at Peña Station, a rail stop just south of Denver International Airport in Colorado. LED street lights, which are 60 to 70 percent more energy efficient than Read More

Buildings use more than 40% of electricity in the US. Be Power Tech aims to change that and decrease the load on the grid with an air conditioner that produces electricity. With the BeCool system, Read More

The State University of New York (SUNY) 2020 economic development plan has awarded Binghamton University $2.8 million for its smart energy facility. The facility conducts research in solar and thermoelectric energy harvesting, energy storage, energy Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the Smart City Air Challenge earlier this year, challenging cities across the United States to collect data using air quality sensors. The cities of Baltimore and Lafayette have been Read More

The Scottish Cities Alliance, made up of the cities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Perth, and Stirling – along with the Scottish national government – have joined forces to create a smart cities program. Read More

Out of Kansas City, Missouri, the founders of PlanIT Impact are linking open data and taking advantage of gigabit technology to make the digital modeling process of design much smarter and to understand resource impact Read More

The Northern Ohio Building-to-Grid Integration Demonstration, a partnership between Case Western Reserve University, NASA Glenn Research Center and the University of Toledo, will begin this month in Northern Ohio. “By using a ‘living laboratory,’ we Read More

Stacy Philpott, Associate Professor in Environmental Studies and holder of the Ruth and Alfred Heller Chair in Agroecology at University of California Santa Cruz, has been awarded a $439,676 grant from the US Department of Read More

Copenhagen has been voted the world’s best city for cyclists, with approximately 400 km of cycle paths and about 40 percent of the capital’s population commuting to work by bike. Through the public bike share Read More

IBM Global Entrepreneur program connects startups to IBM’s network of clients, partners, business leaders, and technology. The program recently cited 10 innovative startups that are building solutions to promote the creation of smart cities in Read More